I know we all enjoy being nerds and using commands (H4ckerman). But now that everything is either a gui or web based, is there really any use to terminal commands?

For example, on windows I never used powershell or cmd hardly ever. I realize now I probably could have. But Linux just drives me to use it more, which i like anyway (because let’s be honest, it makes us feel superior)

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 day ago

    multi select with shift and control

    There are cases where manually-selecting from a list of files to perform an operation on is desirable, but there are ways to do so in a terminal. Myself, I’d use dired on emacs: hit C-x d and select the directory in question, then tag the items you want (various tools to do this, but m will mark the current item) and then ! to invoke a specified command on all of them.

    There are other terminal file managers out there including Orthodox File Manager-type programs like Midnight Commander and others like ranger. I don’t use those, but I’m sure that they have similar “manually build set of files to perform operation on” functionality.